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Absent Brown makes excuse
Gov. Edmund Brow n, speak* i ing in the bust* ling metropolis | o f Hawthorne, gave this reason Thursday for not speaking at USC:
“I’d love to do it but there's only five days i left and I don’t I have time ”
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1966
NO. 30
Helen semifinal set tomorrow
Interviews for the 30 Helen of Troy semifinal-ists will be held tomorrow.
Gary Kaffer- ! ty, Helen oi j Troy Committee I chairman, said 1 a p p ointments should be mnde t o m o r row b°-tween 2 and 8 p.m.
Tickets on sale for spirited ball
Sigma Chi gets shorter sentence
The rare opportunity for students to socialize with President and Mrs. Topping, as well as other university a Iministrators and Board of Trustee members, will be provided at the President’s Ball on Nov. 12.
Tickets for the spirited affair will go on sale today for S5 per couple. They can be purchased in fraternities, dormitories or the Student Activities Office, located in the YWCA.
The event will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the International Hotel and will be a semi-formal affair. Music will be provided by Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
The President’s Ball, held during the Christmas season the past two years, has been moved up on the university’s social calendar to kick off Troy Week, which will be climaxed the following Saturday with the USC-UCLA football game.
Highlight of the evening will be the crowning of Helen of Troy by Dr. Topping.
He and his wife will serve as hosts for the dance. Also expected to attend are the four vice-presidents of the university, members of the dean's staff, several faculty members and members of the Board of Trustees. as well as approximately 2.000 students.
Other Troy Week events are Trolios on Wednesday evening, house
Nc love' in movies, says actor
One person's love—this is what’s lacking in today’s pictures, actor Karl Malden said Friday.
Malden was guest at an informal question-and-answer session Sor Delta Kappa Alpha and the staff of the Cinema Department.
‘■One of the greatest films I have seen was w’ritten, directed, edited and photographed by a 28-year-old boy who wras in love with what he wras doing and had to see it done, the Academy Award winner said.
“Today there are too many executives. It’s almost cut-and-dried. We’re in a business. You’ll find that out sooner or later. When a picture involves so much money, it’s out to make money.
“Universally, films today are doing better. For every bad one there’s a good one.”
The best of theater and motion pictures comes out in the director-actor relationship, Malden said.
“The director has a right to demand what he wants for the overall picture. The actor has a right to sell the director the fact that he is giving the director w'hat he wrants.
“Most directors are sensitive.” Malden said. “Elia Kazan, the greatest. most brilliant one I know, does not demand that an actor adjusts to him. He adjusts for the actor.” “I try to stimulate the director so he gets carried away in his work enough to stimulate me.”
Malden, whose films include “Streetcar Named Desire.” “On the Waterfront.” “One-Eyed Jacks,” “Nevada Smith” and “How the West Was Won,” has tried some directing.
decorations on Thursday, a bonfire-rally-street dance on Friday night and the game on Saturday.
Some of the personnel connected with Troy Week are Clyde Doheney and Candy Bsnheim, cochairmen; Judy Daniels. President's Ball chairman; Gary Rafferty, Helen cf Troy chairman; Bob Moloney. Trolios director: Larry Hall, house decorations chairman; Pat Larkin, rally chairman; and Greg Kieselmann, publicity chairman.
Noise deadening set as topic for building seminar
About 300 architects are expected to attend a seminar on “The Art of Acoustics in Architecture” in Hancock Auditorium today.
The purpose or the seminar is to present a synopsis of the latest advances in architectural acoustics to local architects.
The day-long seminar, w7hich will include speeches, discussions and a luncheon, is being directed by Jack B. C. Purcell, visiting lecturer at USC and manager of the architectural acoustics department of the Los Angeles office of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.
The architects will hear talks on “Acoustical Influences in Architectural Design,” “The Changing Criteria” and “Developments in Acoustical Standards.”
“Noise Control in Buildings and Systems" and “Acoustics of Theaters and Concert Halls” will also be discussed.
The seminar is being offered without charge to architects.
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ANTARCTIC PIONEER TO SPEAK THIS WEEK Lawrence M. Gould will lecture as part of the Visiting Scholar Program.
Shades subject
of Antarctic for geologist
DECORATING? MOTORS ARE OK
Contrary to what some of the applications say, Troy Week house decorations may be mechanized this year. Only electrical motors may be used, however. Combustion motors are prohibited.
Applications for house decorations are available at the Student Activities Office, in the YWCA. They must be returned with a color drawing of the decoration no later than 4 p.m. Nov. 11.
This year’s theme. “The Year of the Horse,” is in honor of Traveler, who will retire after the football season.
A two-time Antarctic explorer and former college president will deliver two all-university lectures this week on the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
Dr. Laurence M. Gould will speak on “Our Fractured Culture” tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. in 129 Founders Hall, and will lecture on “Geology of Antarctica” Wednesday noon in 200 Stauffer Hall.
Dr. Gould was second in command and head geologist for the 1928-30 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, when he and two others explored previously unknown mountains. Adm. Richard , Byrd later named Mt. Gould after him.
He also directed the U.S. Antarctic program during the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, and participated in Arctic explorations during the 1920s.
Dr. Gould became professor of geology at Carlton College, in North-field, Minn., in 1932, and accepted the presidency in 1945. He retired in 1962. He is presently a professor
of geology at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Gould was president of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa was 1958 to 1961 and is currently one of the scholastic honorary’s senators.
Besides earning B.S., M.A. and Sc.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, he has been given two honorary So.D.’s, eight LL.D.'s, three L.H.D.’s and two D. Litt.’s.
He has received the U.S. Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Cross of St. Olaf and the David Livingstone Gold Medal of the American Geographical Society.
Dr. Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and immediate past president of the American Association for the advancement of Science.
He is a former trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for • the Advancement of Teaching and has served on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.
The visiting scholars program consists of eight outstanding national scholars speaking at 70 institutions throughout the year.
Sigma Chi fraternity has been taken off general probation and placed on disciplinary probation, the IFC Judicial Council announced yesterday.
Chief Justice Dick Burt said this was a reduction in probation made after a regular review last week.
Sigma Chi's next review will be Nov. 16. “I don’t know wrhat the judicial will do,” Burt said.
The probation was supposed to last until the end of this semester, but the council was impressed with
Ibsen's 'Ghosts' to haunt Bovard Thursday night
Henrik Ibsen's “Ghosts” goes into dress rehearsal today in Bovard Auditorium for its opening on Thursday at 8:30 p.m.
Directed by Dr. Herbert M. Stahl, professor of drama, this classic play will be presented on Nov. 3, 4, 5, 10,
11 and 12.
“The play, which is sometimes titled a ‘domestic tragedy,’ was surely a terrifying ‘happening’ for Norwegian audiences when it was first previewed in the 1880’s,” said William C. White, production coordinator.
Tickets are now on sale in the Bovard box office, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Tickets are $1.50 for Thursday performances and $2 for weekend performances. Student activity book holders receive a $1 discount.
Members of the cast include Valerie Masset, Gar Campbell, Jill Alexander, Lance Larsen and Gene Carlson.
the way probation was being handled, Burt said.
The Sigma Chi (Alpha Upsilon chapter) was ordered to disband their pledge class and cease all social and business activities last semester by the council.
The chapter was allowed to reside in the fraternity house, with all chapter functions limited to the house. They were also required to select a faculty adviser for the probation period.
The group was charged with several violations, including obscene behavior and damage to property. The fraternity was charged with ten violations according to former IFC Adviser Mike Raleigh.
Some of the major charges according to Raleigh included, “An incident occurring during the weekend of the 1964 USC-Stanford football game where members of the chapter caused $700 damage to the Manx Hotel.”
Also included were four events during the spring semester, 1965. One was “an incident involving Alpha Upsilon's newly-elected president and members of the Theta Xi fraternity which resulted in several Sigma Chi members entering the Theta Xi house, rousing members out of bed, threatening them, etc.”
USC past is theme
speech
BOVARD FAMILY DAUGHTER DIES
Another member of the Bovard family prominent in the 86-year history of USC is dead.
Edna Bovard (Mrs. John S.) Malcolm, daughter of the late Dr. George Finley Bovard, fourth president of USC, died Thursday at her home in San Juan Capistrano after a long illness. She was 79, having been born in Los Angeles on July 27, 1887.
Graveside services will be held today at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery by Divel Funeral Home, San Clemente.
ENGLISH T.A. TELLS OF FOREIGN ADVENTURES
student's voyage of self-discovery
By MIKE PARDRIDGE
In his time, Frank Prosak has been a beggar, a Bohemian, a student, a playwright, and a teacher. He has traveled through Europe on an empty stomach and stretched the law to stay alive.
At 24, however, Frank Prosak is now merely a teaching assistant and
Publications board six members
Six new members of the Board of Student Publications have been announced by Dr. Norman Topping.
The new appointees include: Dr. Robert Berkov, professor of public administration: Leonard Wines, direc-tor of university relations; Laura Halem, political science junior; Jeff Robinson, engineering graduate; Marilyn Sutton, business junior; and Steve Harris, journalism senior and Daily Trojan editor.
The Board of Student Publications is the liaison between the university at large and student publications. All appointments are for the academic year.
Last year's members include:
William S. Duniway, director of the university News Bureau; Dr. Edward
H. Barker, associate professor of marketing; Michael Moran, Mark Pultman, Jo Whitehouse and Mary Garber, students.
Harris is an ex officio member of the board, which also includes six permanent members.
They are: Dr. Theodore E. Krug-lak, director of School of Journalism and board chairman; Paul Bloland, dean of students; Roy H. Copperud, associate professor of journalism; James Durbin, lecturer in English; David Martin, associate professor of education; and Tim Reilly, Jr., director of student publications.
English student.
His serene present conceals a not-so-serene past.
Prosak went to Europe as a col* lege sophomore, but he did not go just to see the sights. He made the trip to discover what too few young people ever come to realize.
“I learned not to take myself so seriously — that I wasn’t really the greatest person on earth. But then, that period is typical for many young people,” the soft - spoken Easterner confesses.
Prosak's “typical period” began when, as a student in creative writing and theater arts at Purdue University, he won $1000 for a play he wrote.
“After my play was produced, I knew for a fact that I would write the great American novel. So I went to Paris, where the cultural and intellectual atmosphere would be more romantic.”
In three months his money was gone and he was forced to look for
FRANK PROSAK Begger, bohemian, teacher
work. His jobs, many of which he laughingly admits were not - so - legal—included playing guitar in a street band, posing as a French artist and selling “Marks - a - lot” paintings to un* aware American tourists.
He lived where he could and ate what was given to him by other Bohemians, outcasts and drifters.
‘*1 met people who were extremely generous, folks who would give me their last dime although not knowing when their own next meal was coming,” he says.
From Paris, now looking quite unlike a college student, the young American set out hitchhiking to Africa. After a few days of walking, he landed a ride from two truck-driving dope peddlers. They proceded to drive to the middle of the desert and rob him of his last few dollars.
Thinking back over the penniless days in European villages when he was fed by strangers, Prosak says: “As I met more of these poor peo-
ple who were willing to help me. I realized we must somehow learn to love each other in our lifetime without restrictions.
In two years abroad, Frank Prosak saw sights of poverty few ever witness. But more important, he learned how to love without restrictions . . . and that is a great gift.
A Department of History professor who is currently writing a history of USC will speak at noon tomorrow on the topic “University History: Public Relations or Scholarly Research?”
Dr. Manuel Servin. associate professor of history, will be the first of two speakers this semester sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta. professional history society.
His talk in the YWCA library will be followed with questions and discussion until 1:15 p.m. All students are invited, and are free to bring a sack lunch with them.
Dr. Servin is currently completing a book on USC history begun nearly three years ago at the request of President Topping.
Phi Alpha Theta will sponsor a similar meeting in December on the question of Negro slavery. At that time Dr. Joseph Boskin and John E. Wills will participate in a panel discussion on the subject.
The society is headed by Gloria Creutz. president; Erin Hennessy, vice-president; and Anita Abascal, secretary.
Dr. Boskin is the adviser to the society which is returning to campus this year.
Dr. Boskin said, “we're interested to find out whether this is to a public relations effort or an honest scholarly history.”
Dr. Servin's book is expected to include a detailed account of the university’s past since its founding in 1880. Since that time the university has grown from 248 students to 19,000, and last June’s large graduating class dwarfs the original 1882 class of three.
TJB to materialize at Notre Dame game
The TJB will be here Nov. 26.
The TJB is Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and although they will not play a full concert or anything as gaudy as that, they will play a few numbers at halftime of the USC-Notre Dame football game.
Alpert’s group will provide a moving target, playing songs while circling the football field in a car.
The hush-hush announcement has not officially been made, but Los Angeles Herald-Examiner columnist Dorothy Manners said it wras so last week, and a Daily Trojan reporter confirmed it with the Special Events Office Friday.
Alpert, a USC graduate, took his
brassy Latin jazz beat and applied it to standards like “A Taste of Honey” and “Flamingo.”
The result was instant success.
Alpert’s albums including “Whip-ed Cream and other Delights,” are now top sellers.
The odd part of it all is that the originator of the Mexicali sound has never been to Mexico. He’s not Mexican and he graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles.
What’s more, none of his musicians are Mexicans.
And he couldn’t have learned the sound at USC, where he was a member of the Trojan Marching Band, a group not noted for its Latin sound.

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Absent Brown makes excuse
Gov. Edmund Brow n, speak* i ing in the bust* ling metropolis | o f Hawthorne, gave this reason Thursday for not speaking at USC:
“I’d love to do it but there's only five days i left and I don’t I have time ”
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1966
NO. 30
Helen semifinal set tomorrow
Interviews for the 30 Helen of Troy semifinal-ists will be held tomorrow.
Gary Kaffer- ! ty, Helen oi j Troy Committee I chairman, said 1 a p p ointments should be mnde t o m o r row b°-tween 2 and 8 p.m.
Tickets on sale for spirited ball
Sigma Chi gets shorter sentence
The rare opportunity for students to socialize with President and Mrs. Topping, as well as other university a Iministrators and Board of Trustee members, will be provided at the President’s Ball on Nov. 12.
Tickets for the spirited affair will go on sale today for S5 per couple. They can be purchased in fraternities, dormitories or the Student Activities Office, located in the YWCA.
The event will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the International Hotel and will be a semi-formal affair. Music will be provided by Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
The President’s Ball, held during the Christmas season the past two years, has been moved up on the university’s social calendar to kick off Troy Week, which will be climaxed the following Saturday with the USC-UCLA football game.
Highlight of the evening will be the crowning of Helen of Troy by Dr. Topping.
He and his wife will serve as hosts for the dance. Also expected to attend are the four vice-presidents of the university, members of the dean's staff, several faculty members and members of the Board of Trustees. as well as approximately 2.000 students.
Other Troy Week events are Trolios on Wednesday evening, house
Nc love' in movies, says actor
One person's love—this is what’s lacking in today’s pictures, actor Karl Malden said Friday.
Malden was guest at an informal question-and-answer session Sor Delta Kappa Alpha and the staff of the Cinema Department.
‘■One of the greatest films I have seen was w’ritten, directed, edited and photographed by a 28-year-old boy who wras in love with what he wras doing and had to see it done, the Academy Award winner said.
“Today there are too many executives. It’s almost cut-and-dried. We’re in a business. You’ll find that out sooner or later. When a picture involves so much money, it’s out to make money.
“Universally, films today are doing better. For every bad one there’s a good one.”
The best of theater and motion pictures comes out in the director-actor relationship, Malden said.
“The director has a right to demand what he wants for the overall picture. The actor has a right to sell the director the fact that he is giving the director w'hat he wrants.
“Most directors are sensitive.” Malden said. “Elia Kazan, the greatest. most brilliant one I know, does not demand that an actor adjusts to him. He adjusts for the actor.” “I try to stimulate the director so he gets carried away in his work enough to stimulate me.”
Malden, whose films include “Streetcar Named Desire.” “On the Waterfront.” “One-Eyed Jacks,” “Nevada Smith” and “How the West Was Won,” has tried some directing.
decorations on Thursday, a bonfire-rally-street dance on Friday night and the game on Saturday.
Some of the personnel connected with Troy Week are Clyde Doheney and Candy Bsnheim, cochairmen; Judy Daniels. President's Ball chairman; Gary Rafferty, Helen cf Troy chairman; Bob Moloney. Trolios director: Larry Hall, house decorations chairman; Pat Larkin, rally chairman; and Greg Kieselmann, publicity chairman.
Noise deadening set as topic for building seminar
About 300 architects are expected to attend a seminar on “The Art of Acoustics in Architecture” in Hancock Auditorium today.
The purpose or the seminar is to present a synopsis of the latest advances in architectural acoustics to local architects.
The day-long seminar, w7hich will include speeches, discussions and a luncheon, is being directed by Jack B. C. Purcell, visiting lecturer at USC and manager of the architectural acoustics department of the Los Angeles office of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.
The architects will hear talks on “Acoustical Influences in Architectural Design,” “The Changing Criteria” and “Developments in Acoustical Standards.”
“Noise Control in Buildings and Systems" and “Acoustics of Theaters and Concert Halls” will also be discussed.
The seminar is being offered without charge to architects.
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ANTARCTIC PIONEER TO SPEAK THIS WEEK Lawrence M. Gould will lecture as part of the Visiting Scholar Program.
Shades subject
of Antarctic for geologist
DECORATING? MOTORS ARE OK
Contrary to what some of the applications say, Troy Week house decorations may be mechanized this year. Only electrical motors may be used, however. Combustion motors are prohibited.
Applications for house decorations are available at the Student Activities Office, in the YWCA. They must be returned with a color drawing of the decoration no later than 4 p.m. Nov. 11.
This year’s theme. “The Year of the Horse,” is in honor of Traveler, who will retire after the football season.
A two-time Antarctic explorer and former college president will deliver two all-university lectures this week on the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
Dr. Laurence M. Gould will speak on “Our Fractured Culture” tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. in 129 Founders Hall, and will lecture on “Geology of Antarctica” Wednesday noon in 200 Stauffer Hall.
Dr. Gould was second in command and head geologist for the 1928-30 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, when he and two others explored previously unknown mountains. Adm. Richard , Byrd later named Mt. Gould after him.
He also directed the U.S. Antarctic program during the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, and participated in Arctic explorations during the 1920s.
Dr. Gould became professor of geology at Carlton College, in North-field, Minn., in 1932, and accepted the presidency in 1945. He retired in 1962. He is presently a professor
of geology at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Gould was president of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa was 1958 to 1961 and is currently one of the scholastic honorary’s senators.
Besides earning B.S., M.A. and Sc.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, he has been given two honorary So.D.’s, eight LL.D.'s, three L.H.D.’s and two D. Litt.’s.
He has received the U.S. Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Cross of St. Olaf and the David Livingstone Gold Medal of the American Geographical Society.
Dr. Gould is a trustee of the Ford Foundation and immediate past president of the American Association for the advancement of Science.
He is a former trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for • the Advancement of Teaching and has served on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.
The visiting scholars program consists of eight outstanding national scholars speaking at 70 institutions throughout the year.
Sigma Chi fraternity has been taken off general probation and placed on disciplinary probation, the IFC Judicial Council announced yesterday.
Chief Justice Dick Burt said this was a reduction in probation made after a regular review last week.
Sigma Chi's next review will be Nov. 16. “I don’t know wrhat the judicial will do,” Burt said.
The probation was supposed to last until the end of this semester, but the council was impressed with
Ibsen's 'Ghosts' to haunt Bovard Thursday night
Henrik Ibsen's “Ghosts” goes into dress rehearsal today in Bovard Auditorium for its opening on Thursday at 8:30 p.m.
Directed by Dr. Herbert M. Stahl, professor of drama, this classic play will be presented on Nov. 3, 4, 5, 10,
11 and 12.
“The play, which is sometimes titled a ‘domestic tragedy,’ was surely a terrifying ‘happening’ for Norwegian audiences when it was first previewed in the 1880’s,” said William C. White, production coordinator.
Tickets are now on sale in the Bovard box office, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Tickets are $1.50 for Thursday performances and $2 for weekend performances. Student activity book holders receive a $1 discount.
Members of the cast include Valerie Masset, Gar Campbell, Jill Alexander, Lance Larsen and Gene Carlson.
the way probation was being handled, Burt said.
The Sigma Chi (Alpha Upsilon chapter) was ordered to disband their pledge class and cease all social and business activities last semester by the council.
The chapter was allowed to reside in the fraternity house, with all chapter functions limited to the house. They were also required to select a faculty adviser for the probation period.
The group was charged with several violations, including obscene behavior and damage to property. The fraternity was charged with ten violations according to former IFC Adviser Mike Raleigh.
Some of the major charges according to Raleigh included, “An incident occurring during the weekend of the 1964 USC-Stanford football game where members of the chapter caused $700 damage to the Manx Hotel.”
Also included were four events during the spring semester, 1965. One was “an incident involving Alpha Upsilon's newly-elected president and members of the Theta Xi fraternity which resulted in several Sigma Chi members entering the Theta Xi house, rousing members out of bed, threatening them, etc.”
USC past is theme
speech
BOVARD FAMILY DAUGHTER DIES
Another member of the Bovard family prominent in the 86-year history of USC is dead.
Edna Bovard (Mrs. John S.) Malcolm, daughter of the late Dr. George Finley Bovard, fourth president of USC, died Thursday at her home in San Juan Capistrano after a long illness. She was 79, having been born in Los Angeles on July 27, 1887.
Graveside services will be held today at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery by Divel Funeral Home, San Clemente.
ENGLISH T.A. TELLS OF FOREIGN ADVENTURES
student's voyage of self-discovery
By MIKE PARDRIDGE
In his time, Frank Prosak has been a beggar, a Bohemian, a student, a playwright, and a teacher. He has traveled through Europe on an empty stomach and stretched the law to stay alive.
At 24, however, Frank Prosak is now merely a teaching assistant and
Publications board six members
Six new members of the Board of Student Publications have been announced by Dr. Norman Topping.
The new appointees include: Dr. Robert Berkov, professor of public administration: Leonard Wines, direc-tor of university relations; Laura Halem, political science junior; Jeff Robinson, engineering graduate; Marilyn Sutton, business junior; and Steve Harris, journalism senior and Daily Trojan editor.
The Board of Student Publications is the liaison between the university at large and student publications. All appointments are for the academic year.
Last year's members include:
William S. Duniway, director of the university News Bureau; Dr. Edward
H. Barker, associate professor of marketing; Michael Moran, Mark Pultman, Jo Whitehouse and Mary Garber, students.
Harris is an ex officio member of the board, which also includes six permanent members.
They are: Dr. Theodore E. Krug-lak, director of School of Journalism and board chairman; Paul Bloland, dean of students; Roy H. Copperud, associate professor of journalism; James Durbin, lecturer in English; David Martin, associate professor of education; and Tim Reilly, Jr., director of student publications.
English student.
His serene present conceals a not-so-serene past.
Prosak went to Europe as a col* lege sophomore, but he did not go just to see the sights. He made the trip to discover what too few young people ever come to realize.
“I learned not to take myself so seriously — that I wasn’t really the greatest person on earth. But then, that period is typical for many young people,” the soft - spoken Easterner confesses.
Prosak's “typical period” began when, as a student in creative writing and theater arts at Purdue University, he won $1000 for a play he wrote.
“After my play was produced, I knew for a fact that I would write the great American novel. So I went to Paris, where the cultural and intellectual atmosphere would be more romantic.”
In three months his money was gone and he was forced to look for
FRANK PROSAK Begger, bohemian, teacher
work. His jobs, many of which he laughingly admits were not - so - legal—included playing guitar in a street band, posing as a French artist and selling “Marks - a - lot” paintings to un* aware American tourists.
He lived where he could and ate what was given to him by other Bohemians, outcasts and drifters.
‘*1 met people who were extremely generous, folks who would give me their last dime although not knowing when their own next meal was coming,” he says.
From Paris, now looking quite unlike a college student, the young American set out hitchhiking to Africa. After a few days of walking, he landed a ride from two truck-driving dope peddlers. They proceded to drive to the middle of the desert and rob him of his last few dollars.
Thinking back over the penniless days in European villages when he was fed by strangers, Prosak says: “As I met more of these poor peo-
ple who were willing to help me. I realized we must somehow learn to love each other in our lifetime without restrictions.
In two years abroad, Frank Prosak saw sights of poverty few ever witness. But more important, he learned how to love without restrictions . . . and that is a great gift.
A Department of History professor who is currently writing a history of USC will speak at noon tomorrow on the topic “University History: Public Relations or Scholarly Research?”
Dr. Manuel Servin. associate professor of history, will be the first of two speakers this semester sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta. professional history society.
His talk in the YWCA library will be followed with questions and discussion until 1:15 p.m. All students are invited, and are free to bring a sack lunch with them.
Dr. Servin is currently completing a book on USC history begun nearly three years ago at the request of President Topping.
Phi Alpha Theta will sponsor a similar meeting in December on the question of Negro slavery. At that time Dr. Joseph Boskin and John E. Wills will participate in a panel discussion on the subject.
The society is headed by Gloria Creutz. president; Erin Hennessy, vice-president; and Anita Abascal, secretary.
Dr. Boskin is the adviser to the society which is returning to campus this year.
Dr. Boskin said, “we're interested to find out whether this is to a public relations effort or an honest scholarly history.”
Dr. Servin's book is expected to include a detailed account of the university’s past since its founding in 1880. Since that time the university has grown from 248 students to 19,000, and last June’s large graduating class dwarfs the original 1882 class of three.
TJB to materialize at Notre Dame game
The TJB will be here Nov. 26.
The TJB is Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and although they will not play a full concert or anything as gaudy as that, they will play a few numbers at halftime of the USC-Notre Dame football game.
Alpert’s group will provide a moving target, playing songs while circling the football field in a car.
The hush-hush announcement has not officially been made, but Los Angeles Herald-Examiner columnist Dorothy Manners said it wras so last week, and a Daily Trojan reporter confirmed it with the Special Events Office Friday.
Alpert, a USC graduate, took his
brassy Latin jazz beat and applied it to standards like “A Taste of Honey” and “Flamingo.”
The result was instant success.
Alpert’s albums including “Whip-ed Cream and other Delights,” are now top sellers.
The odd part of it all is that the originator of the Mexicali sound has never been to Mexico. He’s not Mexican and he graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles.
What’s more, none of his musicians are Mexicans.
And he couldn’t have learned the sound at USC, where he was a member of the Trojan Marching Band, a group not noted for its Latin sound.